Hours before I was due to hop in a rental car to drive to his home last week, Charles C. (Johnson has said he was merely referring to his reporting and was not making a physical threat.) You can read his lawyer’s letter to Twitter demanding immediate reinstatement here. The suspension came in response to a tweet Johnson sent out asking for help “taking out” activist civil rights activist DeRay McKesson.
Update, : On Monday, Twitter permanently suspended Chuck Johnson’s Twitter account, as well as another account, he set up in response to the initial suspension. “You may decide, for instance, what many people on the left and the right think-that I’m a sociopath and blah blah blah,” says Charles C.